Well, not that Tom Paine...an admirer of his, a British subject who spent two decades working in Eastern Europe after The Wall fell, only to return home to a country debilitated by the same ideas that ruined Eastern Europe:
More than half of mankind experienced socialism in the twentieth century. Almost all of us experienced some less full-blooded implementations than were tried behind the Berlin Wall. There has never been a greater experiment in all human history and It led to the deaths of millions and the impoverishment of billions. If ever an idea was ready for the dustbin of history, surely this one was? Yet it marches on. A zombie ideology; dead but still a threat.
As the noise increases in the coming weeks, OS hopes we keep our focus. We don't need a glib hustler who would rather hang out with the ladies on 'The View' while in New York, at the expense of meeting with world leaders who have need of face time. We need a sober grown-up, even if he is stiff as a board in front of an audience.
We need someone who has not drunk the socialist koolaid, insisting we partake with him.
